Jessie cashes in

"Alan Minyard" wrote in message
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On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 02:24:22 GMT, "Gene Storey"
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"Mike Marron" wrote

I wonder what the name of her book will be...

"How not to use GPS in an RPG environment"

Or "I got captured and that some how made me a heroin".

heroine

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Cub Driver wrote:


NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former prisoner of war Jessica Lynch has signed a
$1 million agreement with Alfred A. Knopf, giving the injured former
U.S. Army private the chance to tell her own story, the publisher said
on Tuesday.

While I don't begrudge her the money, the choice of a questionable
ghost writer, released from the NYT for by-lining a story written by a
free-lancer means the whole project will be discredited.

I agree, and I have a problem with the whole thing really. Like you, I
don't
begrudge her the money, but there are mitigating circumstances to her
"hero"
status to begin with.

I think Jessica has cause to put her story out, after the way BBC has
trashed her.

"Mike Marron" wrote in message
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"Phineas Pinkham" wrote:

No wonder Rasimus is foaming at the mouth!
He isn't checked out in Choppers, so no part in the movie.

I grew up witnessing the enviable dynamics that goes on
when a woman is in the presence of a decorated fighter pilot...

Pilots tend to merry matronly stable women.

Another Marron fantasy flushed ...

"Tarver Engineering" wrote:


"Alan Minyard" wrote

Or "I got captured and that some how made me a heroin".

heroine


C'mon John, I'm pretty sure that Alan meant that to be 'heroin'.

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-Gord.

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"Gord Beaman" wrote in message
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snort

No, it's best injected; cocaine is snorted.
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Thanks - on really bad days here, I lay out a rail of coffee and snort
that.


Usually works after the third one.



Cheers

Dave Kearton

On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 23:58:59 GMT, "Gord Beaman" )
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"Tarver Engineering" wrote:


"Alan Minyard" wrote

Or "I got captured and that some how made me a heroin".

heroine


C'mon John, I'm pretty sure that Alan meant that to be 'heroin'.

Actually, John got this one right, mea culpa.

Al Minyard

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Cub Driver wrote:


NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former prisoner of
war Jessica Lynch has signed a
$1 million agreement with Alfred A. Knopf,
giving the injured former
U.S. Army private the chance to tell her
own story, the publisher said
on Tuesday.

While I don't begrudge her the money, the
choice of a questionable
ghost writer, released from the NYT for
by-lining a story written by a
free-lancer means the whole project will
be discredited.

I agree, and I have a problem with the whole
thing really. Like you, I
don't
begrudge her the money, but there are mitigating
circumstances to her
"hero"
status to begin with.

I think Jessica has cause to put her story out,
after the way BBC has
trashed her.


And she has good reason. Anyone notice that Chemical Ali was using the
hospital where she was held as a CP? Seems the BBC and Toronto Star reporters
seemed to ignore that little detail, as well as claiming the flash-bang grenades
were blanks. I bet neither reporter had been with a military unit during
the push north to Baghdad, nor had much knowledge of how a POW/hostage rescue
works.

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"Ed Majden" wrote:

"Cub Driver" NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former prisoner
of war Jessica Lynch has
signed a
$1 million agreement with Alfred A. Knopf,
giving the injured former
U.S. Army private the chance to tell her own
story, the publisher said
on Tuesday.


all the best -- Dan Ford

Wow! They must be lining up at the recruiting
stations to join up!
When I was in Europe stationed minutes flying
time away from the "iron
curtain" by CF-104 I too was in a roll over
accident. Dam, I didn't think
of writing a book nor was I approached to do
so. No medal either, just a
terse discussion with the MP's on return to
the base! ;-)
Good luck to Jessie! I wonder if she will
get movie royalties also.
Ed


The NBC movie almost had her cooperation-it got leaked to the New York Times
and the family backed out. Her story gets the book first, and then a movie
with her input. The NBC movie is being filmed without her assistance. The
Iraqi who tipped off the Marines to her location did get hired as a Technical
Advisor.

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claiming the flash-bang grenades
were blanks.

Well, I suppose they are, in a sense. But were the papers trying to
make the point that the rescue was therefore somehow bogus?

There'll be an interesting tension in the Jessie story. Put aside the
macho guys who will never admit that a female truck driver (whatever)
deserves a medal, what about the fem-nazis? They're really in a bind.
They have got to celebrate Jessie as an honest to goodness hero-person
(thank god we got rid of "heroine" before the language police came
along). But on the other hand they are the same ladies who stand
around the intersections carrying signs: No More Neo-Con Wars! (I
particularly like that message: I wonder if they really think Bush 43
is a neo-conservative?).

Maybe it will be a variant of the "hate the sin / love the sinner"
routine. Or maybe the fears of those who have been sniping at the
former NYTimesman will be justified: Jessie will turn out to be a
pacifist?


all the best -- Dan Ford
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